Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran! (Santa Cruz)
CODEPINK, ANSWER | indybay.org | 2020-01-22
Santa Cruz Town Clock, tri-intersection of Water Street, Front Street, N. Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95060…
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Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran! (Sacramento)
CODEPINK, ANSWER | indybay.org | 2020-01-22
Intersection of 9th street & K street, Sacramento, CA 95814…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/20/18829929.php
Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran! (San Mateo)
CODEPINK, ANSWER | indybay.org | 2020-01-22
Intersection of 3rd Avenue and El Camino Real, San Mateo, CA 94401…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/20/18829933.php
Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran! (Davis)
CODEPINK, ANSWER | indybay.org | 2020-01-22
Intersection of 5th Street and B Street, Downtown Davis 95616…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/20/18829931.php
US Officials Admit Covert Tech Program Is Fueling Iran Protests
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-22
After major protests hit multiple cities across Iran in November following a drastic government slash in gasoline subsidies which quickly turned anti-regime, broad internet outages were reported
Can cryptocurrencies protect countries from US sanctions? RT's Boom Bust finds out
rt.com | 2020-01-22
RT's Boom Bust has sat in with the CEO of cryptocurrency aggregator Bitsian to discuss how nations facing tough US sanctions have been exploring cryptocurrencies in attempt to shield their economies from damage. | "These countries are looking at this as a way to avoid sanctions, but also these are countries, where their own sovereign currencies are facing huge amount of devaluation and lack of trust by their own people," Raakhee Miller told Boom Bust. | The CEO said that countries such as Venezuela and Iran face a "flight-to-quality" so bitcoin becomes more trustworthy for people to keep their assets. Howev…
rt.com/business/478899-cryptocurrencies-us-sanctions-protection/
Trump Downplays US Casualties from Iranian Attack
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-22
Dozens of U.S. troops were withdrawn from Iraq this week after 11 soldiers were wounded during the Iranian attack on two bases, a U.S. official told Reuters on the condition of anonymity. | RELATED: | Iraqi President Meets With Trump to Discuss US Withdrawal | According to the official that spoke to Reuters on Wednesday, the soldiers were transported from Iraq to the U.S. military bases in Germany. | Meanwhile, earlier in the day, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters during t…
telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Downplays-US-Casualties-from-Iranian-Attack–20200122-0007.html
How Are Iran and the "Axis of the Resistance" Affected by the US Assassination of Soleimani?
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-22
The US President Donald Trump assassinated the commander of the "Axis of the Resistance", the (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps) IRGC
Muddle-Eastern diplomacy: White House confuses Iran and Iraq in YouTube blunder
rt.com | 2020-01-22
As President Donald Trump sat down with the world's movers and shakers at Davos, White House staff clearly weren't paying much attention, mistaking Iraqi President Barham Salih for his Iranian counterpart. | "President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of the Republic of Iran," the title of a YouTube video published by the White House on Wednesday proclaimed. | Hell had not frozen over, however, and Trump had not secretly met with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani unbeknownst to the world's media. Instead, the video clearly showed Trump meeting with Iraqi President Barham Salih. | Ira…
rt.com/usa/478894-white-house-iran-iraq/
US Violated Unspoken Rule of Engagement with Iran
Prof. As'ad AbuKhalil | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-22
Something big and unprecedented has happened in the Middle East after the assassination of one of Iran's top commanders, Qasim Suleimani. | The U.S. has long assumed that assassinations of major figures in the Iranian "resistance-axis" in the Middle East …
globalresearch.ca/us-violated-unspoken-rule-engagement-iran/5701386
'Many May Not Return': An interview with two actors
Teresa del Carmen Gonzalez | peoplesworld.org | 2020-01-22
LONG BEACH, Calif.–The anti-war play Many May Not Return, by David Trujillo, touches on current political issues and global events, such as this being an election year, the recent assassination in Iraq of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by U.S. troops, which created the black cloud of war hanging over the future. These are signs of …
peoplesworld.org/article/many-may-not-return-an-interview-with-two-actors/
Former Nuremberg War Crimes Prosecutor on the Immoral Killing of the Iranian General
Benjamin B. Ferencz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-22
*** | To the Editor: | Now in my hundredth year, I cannot remain silent. I entered the United States in January 1921 as a poor immigrant boy, and I have felt obliged to repay the United States for the opportunities given …
globalresearch.ca/former-nuremberg-war-crimes-prosecutor-immoral-killing-iranian-general/5701394
Can cryptocurrencies protect countries from US sanctions? RT's Boom Bust finds out
rt.com | 2020-01-22
RT's Boom Bust has sat in with the CEO of cryptocurrency aggregator Bitsian to discuss how nations facing tough US sanctions have been exploring cryptocurrencies in attempt to shield their economies from damage. | "These countries are looking at this as a way to avoid sanctions, but also these are countries, where their own sovereign currencies are facing huge amount of devaluation and lack of trust by their own people," Raakhee Miller told Boom Bust. | The CEO said that countries such as Venezuela and Iran face a "flight-to-quality" so bitcoin becomes more trustworthy for people to keep their assets. Howev…
rt.com/business/478899-cryptocurrencies-us-sanctions-protection/
The Members of Congress Who Profit from War
David Moore | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-22
Sludge produces investigative journalism on lobbying and money in politics. The American Prospect is re-publishing this article. | It was shortly after midnight in Baghdad on Friday, Jan. 3, when a missile strike ordered by President Trump killed Iranian General Qassem …
globalresearch.ca/members-congress-profit-war/5701416
Europe dispatches naval flotilla to threaten Iran, Syria
wsws.org | 2020-01-22
A French aircraft carrier and European naval flotillas will patrol strategic Middle East waters that are critical to the global oil trade.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/01/22/char-j22.html
A highschooler's analysis: "The U.S. working class says hands off Iran"
Max Herschman | liberationnews.org | 2020-01-22
A version of this article was originally published January 15, 2020 at the Daily Olivian, the student newspaper of Oliver Ames High School in Easton, Massachusetts. Liberation News is republishing this piece by Max Herschman to highlight the organizing work of young people and students in this revived anti-war movement. On January 3, Donald Trump …
liberationnews.org/a-highschoolers-analysis-the-u-s-working-class-says-hands-off-iran/
Washington Desperation Drives Nuclear Proliferation
Ulson Gunnar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-22
A cornered animal is a dangerous animal. For the elite in Washington, with the terminal decline of their "American Century" and the global empire it built during it, they find themselves in a most unaccommodating corner and thus have become …
globalresearch.ca/washington-desperation-drives-nuclear-proliferation/5701352
CBP Deported an Iranian Student With Valid Visa, Defying Court Order
Carol Rose | aclu.org | 2020-01-21
Last night, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) deported an Iranian student with a valid visa, despite a federal court order prohibiting his removal. | Shahab Dehghani arrived at Boston Logan Airport on Sunday, January 19 to study at Northeastern University, where he was enrolled. Customs officials detained him and questioned him for hours, abruptly revoking his student visa, which the State Department granted after a year of intense vetting. | As CBP tried to put Shahab on the next available flight, supporters and friends gathered at night in the arrivals hall at Logan to demand that CBP stop deporting…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/cbp-deported-an-iranian-student-with-valid-visa-defying-court-order
Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran! (Sacramento)
CODEPINK, ANSWER | indybay.org | 2020-01-21
Intersection of 9th street & K street, Sacramento, CA 95814…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/20/18829929.php
Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran! (Davis)
CODEPINK, ANSWER | indybay.org | 2020-01-21
Intersection of 5th Street and B Street, Downtown Davis 95616…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/20/18829931.php
Global Day of Protest: No War with Iran! (Monterey)
CODEPINK, ANSWER | indybay.org | 2020-01-21
Window on the Bay, 717 Del Monte Ave at Camino El Estero, Monterey, CA 93940…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/20/18829927.php
Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran! (San Mateo)
CODEPINK, ANSWER | indybay.org | 2020-01-21
Intersection of 3rd Avenue and El Camino Real, San Mateo, CA 94401…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/20/18829933.php
Global Day of Protest: No War on Iran! (Santa Cruz)
CODEPINK, ANSWER | indybay.org | 2020-01-21
Santa Cruz Town Clock, tri-intersection of Water Street, Front Street, N. Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95060…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/20/18829932.php
Global Day of Protest: No War with Iran! (San Jose)
CODEPINK, ANSWER | indybay.org | 2020-01-21
San José City Hall, 200 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95113…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/01/20/18829926.php
Protests denounce deportation of Iranian student from Boston Logan Airport
Rachel Domond | liberationnews.org | 2020-01-21
More than one hundred advocates and activists gathered at Boston Logan Airport to demand the release of Iranian student Shahab Dehghani, who was detained by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) after landing twenty-four hours prior.
liberationnews.org/protests-denounce-deportation-of-iranian-student-from-boston-logan-airport/
US Officials Admit Covert Tech Program Is Fueling Iran Protests, MEK Attacks Iran Bases & OPCW Lies
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-01-21
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (1/20/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/us-officials-admit-covert-tech-program-is-fueling-iran-protests-mek-attacks-iran-bases-opcw-lies/
The US and Iran's Perpetual Almost-War is Unsustainable
Patrick Cockburn | zcomm.org | 2020-01-21
The US maximalist demands on Iran's nuclear facilities, ballistic missiles and regional influence effectively mean that it wants regime change or capitulation…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-us-and-irans-perpetual-almost-war-is-unsustainable/
Iran Will be Changed Forever by Admitting Its Great Mistake, Unlike the West Which Ignores Its Own Misdeeds
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2020-01-21
"In wartime," Churchill famously told Stalin, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." He said this on 30 November 1943
Iran Threatens to Quit NPT if EU Pursues Reimposition of Security Council Sanctions
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
On Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif said "(i)f the Europeans continue their improper behavior or send Iran's file to the Security Council, we will withdraw from the NPT," adding: " | "The Europeans' remarks lack legal justification…(I)f (they) keep up their actions | …
globalresearch.ca/iran-threatens-quit-npt-eu-pursues-reimposition-security-council-sanctions/5701297
The US Sanctions on Iran Are Causing a Major Humanitarian Crisis
Ahmad Jalalpour | thenation.com | 2020-01-21
The US Sanctions on Iran Are Causing a Major Humanitarian Crisis…
thenation.com/article/iran-sanctions-humanitarian-crisis/
Trump's Threats to the Iranians
Calvin Trillin | thenation.com | 2020-01-21
Trump's Threats to the Iranians…
thenation.com/article/iran-trump-52-cultural/
'Ridiculous': US disarmament envoy slams Iranian MP for proposing $3mn bounty on Trump's head
rt.com | 2020-01-21
A senior US diplomat said an offer of money for the killing of US President Donald Trump, made by an Iranian lawmaker, serves as clear proof of Tehran's "terrorist underpinnings." | "It's just ridiculous, but it gives you a sense of the terrorist underpinnings of that regime, and that regime needs to change its behavior," US Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament Robert Wood told reporters in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday, as quoted by Reuters. | The diplomat was commenting on a remark by Iranian lawmaker Ahmad Hamzeh, who promised to pay US$3,000,000 to anyone who kills Trump. Hamzeh said it would be r…
rt.com/usa/478809-us-envoy-trump-bounty/
US Complains About Iran's Threat to Quit Nuclear Deal
telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-21
"We think that Iran needs to end its malign behavior and sit down with the United States and negotiate an agreement that deals not only with the nuclear issue but also with the other issues that concern us like the ballistic missile proliferation and development and the malign activities around the world."
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Complains-About-Irans-Threat-to-Quit-Nuclear-Deal-20200121-0005.html
Propaganda and Lies: Iran and Ukrainian Flight PS752
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-21
Here is the cardinal rule about government–everything it says through its spokespersons, hired guns, public relations adepts, and the mockingbird corporate media should be considered a self-serving lie, or at best a distortion hammered into shape to fit a predefined …
globalresearch.ca/propaganda-lies-iran-ukrainian-flight-ps752/5701270
US Gov Was Found Guilty In MLK's Assassination, Virginia Update & Israeli Gov "Proof" Of Iran Nukes
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2020-01-21
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (1/20/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/us-gov-was-found-guilty-in-mlks-assassination-virginia-update-israeli-gov-proof-of-iran-nukes/
The Long-Term Consequences of Trump's Middle East Blundering
Mohamad Bazzi | thenation.com | 2020-01-21
The Long-Term Consequences of Trump's Middle East Blundering…
thenation.com/article/trump-iran-iraq-isis/
Netflix, Iran and the Documentary as Geopolitical Weapon
Brian Mier | fair.org | 2020-01-21
Netflix's Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy | Like The Mechanism before it, Netflix's new series Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy is an entertainment product that advances US interests through character assassination of a popular left-wing Latin American leader. | "Try saying this," the director said: "'In the '80s, Rio de Janeiro was a land of the haves and the have nots. I was a have not.'" In 2016, I was working as a fixer on an episode of a Netflix documentary crime series, and the main character was not cooperating with the script. | He was Afro-Brazilian, but he was not the…
fair.org/home/netflix-iran-and-the-documentary-as-geopolitical-weapon/
S. Korea to send vessel, 300 troops to Strait of Hormuz after US pressure
rt.com | 2020-01-21
South Korea will send a naval destroyer and 300 troops to the Strait of Hormuz, the Defense Ministry in Seoul said on Tuesday. The move follows pressure from the US amid tensions between Washington and Tehran, AFP said. | Iran has been blamed for a series of attacks on shipping vessels in the strait, a strategic point for the world's oil trade, where the US has deployed a naval mission. Seoul has had diplomatic relations with Tehran since the early 1960s, and until last year Iran was one of the resource-poor South's key oil suppliers. | The Defense Ministry said that Seoul had decided to "temporarily expand" t…
rt.com/newsline/478774-korea-destroyer-hormuz-us/
Iran threatens to leave nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-01-21
The announcement comes after the UK, France and Germany proposed the invocation of the dispute settlement mechanism in the UNSC – a move that Iran alleges is based on US diktats…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/01/21/iran-threatens-to-leave-nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty/
Iran: The EU-three Trigger Dispute Mechanism in Iran Nuclear Deal
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-01-21
Why, after so many assurances to the contrary, have the three European Iran's Nuclear Deal Partner's
The US Sanctions on Iran Are Causing a Major Humanitarian Crisis
Ahmad Jalalpour | thenation.com | 2020-01-21
The US Sanctions on Iran Are Causing a Major Humanitarian Crisis…
thenation.com/article/iran-sanctions-humanitarian-crisis/
Iranian MP offers $3 million to 'anyone' who takes out Trump
rt.com | 2020-01-21
A member of Iran's parliament has called for placing a bounty on US President Donald Trump's head in response to a drone strike that killed Tehran's senior military commander, Qassem Soleimani. | The statement was made by Ahmad Hamzeh, a lawmaker from the southern Kerman Province, whose namesake capital is Soleimani's hometown. | "On behalf of the people of Kerman Province, we will pay a 3 million dollar award in cash to whoever kills Trump," Hamzeh said in a speech to fellow lawmakers on Tuesday, as quoted by Iranian news outlets. | Hamzeh also said that Iran would be protected from attacks and threats by the…
rt.com/news/478806-iranian-lawmaker-trump-bounty/
Civil war in Iraq? Is Dubai safe? Or World War 3: An analysis of the US-Iran Conflict from every direction
George Stacey | nationofchange.org | 2020-01-21
Iran will never even try to indulge in a one-on-one war with the United States.
nationofchange.org/2020/01/20/civil-war-in-iraq-is-dubai-safe-or-world-war-3-an-analysis-of-the-us-iran-conflict-from-every-direction/
Iran Confirms Two Missiles Were Fired at Downed Ukrainian Airliner
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2020-01-21
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The US's Inalienable Right to Violence
Gregory Shupak | commondreams.org | 2020-01-21
Presenting Iran as the reason for attacks on US forces in Iraq also implies that Iraqis had little objection to the US invasion, legitimizing the US's ongoing military presence in the country. (Photo: DVIDSHUB/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/military_0.jpeg …
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Iran's civil aviation authority confirms 2 missiles fired at Ukraine airliner
rt.com | 2020-01-21
The civil aviation authority in Iran has confirmed two missiles were fired at a Ukrainian airliner that was brought down earlier this month. Investigators discovered that "two Tor-M1 missiles… were fired at the aircraft," the authority said in a preliminary report posted on its website late on Monday. | An investigation is ongoing to assess the bearing their impact had on the accident. The statement confirms a report in The New York Times which included video footage appearing to show two projectiles being fired at the airliner. | The Kiev-bound Ukraine International Airlines plane was shot down in error sho…
rt.com/newsline/478687-iran-missiles-ukraine-airliner/
Washington urges China to join nuclear arms talks with Russia
rt.com | 2020-01-21
The US urged China on Tuesday to join trilateral nuclear arms talks with Moscow. President Donald Trump said last year he had discussed a new accord on limiting nuclear arms with Russian President Vladimir Putin and hoped to extend that to China in what would be a major deal between the globe's top three atomic powers, Reuters said. | China has so far refused to take part. "We think, given the fact that China's nuclear stockpile is estimated to double over the next ten years, now is the time to have that trilateral discussion," said Robert Wood, US disarmament ambassador. He was speaking with reporters on the…
rt.com/newsline/478824-us-china-russia-nuclear/
Oman's foreign minister in Iran for 2nd visit in Jan
yenisafak.com | 2020-01-21
Oman's foreign minister on Tuesday arrived in Iran's capital Tehran in an unannounced visit for the second time in January.Iranian Fars news agency stated that Yusuf bin Alawi will meet his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif to "discuss bilateral cooperation and the most important issues of common interests."Bin Alawi had previously met Zarif on Jan. 17 in the Omani capital Muscat.The Omani foreign minister had previously visited Iran to participate in the "Tehran Dialogue Forum" earlier this month.During the forum, Bin Alawi said his country has important relations with both the Iranian and American sides…
yenisafak.com/en/news/omans-foreign-minister-in-iran-for-2nd-visit-in-jan-3510132
US Boosts Funding of Tech Companies to Help Anti-Tehran Protests
Katrina Manson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-01-20
US government-funded technology companies have recorded an increase in the use of circumvention software in Iran in recent weeks after boosting efforts to help Iranian anti-regime protesters thwart internet censorship and use secure mobile messaging. | The outreach is part of …
globalresearch.ca/us-boosts-funding-of-tech-companies-to-help-anti-tehran-protests/5701082
Latam Expects Stable, Prosperous New Year After Turbulent 2019
Cui Yuanlei, Yang Chunxue, Shooka Shemirani | telesurenglish.net | 2020-01-20
Via Xinhua: | The year of 2019 was a turbulent one for Latin America where there were protests, violent clashes and a fierce tug of war between conservative and progressive currents in countries long considered bastions of stability. | As the region staggers into 2020 with stagnant or even shrinking growth, hopes are that the first year of this new decade will be marked by greater political stability, economic prosperity and fruitful trade ties, though observers admit it may sometimes be an uphill battle. | RECOVERING STABILITY | With…
telesurenglish.net/news/Latam-Expects-Stable-Prosperous-New-Year-After-Turbulent-2019-20200120-0009.html